discomfortable

English

Etymology

Compare Old French desconfortable, equivalent to discomfort +‎ -able or dis- +‎ comfortable.

Adjective

discomfortable (comparative more discomfortable, superlative most discomfortable)

  1. (obsolete) Causing discomfort or uneasiness
    • 1886, Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Age of Shakespeare, John Webster:
      an assassin who misses his aim and flounders into penitence much as that discomfortable drama misses its point and stumbles into vacuity
  2. (obsolete) uncomfortable

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